George W Bush has portrayed himself as a teenage hellraiser in his intimate
memoir, Decision Points.

The former US president disclosed that he was "surly" as an adolescent and admitted that his early drinking ran him into trouble.

Mr Bush told in his 497-page memoir how he killed his sister's goldfish by pouring vodka into its bowl.

He also confessed to crashing two of his father’s cars at the age of 14, the legal driving age at the time.

“I borrowed Dad’s car, carelessly charged in reverse, and tore the door off. I poured vodka in the fish bowl and killed my little sister Doro’s goldfish. At times I was surly, demanding and brash,” he wrote.

But he described his mother, Barbara, as “the enforcer” and said she whipped him into shape.